Modeling XML Applications with UML (Object Technology Series) Book

Modeling XML Applications with UML describes how to analyse, design and deploy XML vocabularies, with a particular focus on e-Business. UML (Unified Modelling Language) is well established as a standard, graphical way to create models for applications and other systems. UML has value both for modelling Web applications which use XML, and for modelling XML vocabularies. Aimed at developers and system architects, this title looks at both these aspects, as well as related topics like deploying Web services using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). The first part of the book covers foundations (introducing XML and UML) and use case analyses of e-business systems. There is also a chapter on building portals with XML. The second part focuses on XML vocabularies, including a discussion of how to map UML to XML and a close look at XML DTDs (Document Type Definitions) versus the newer XML Schema standard for defining, documenting and validating XML. Part three concerns deployment, beginning with a chapter on achieving compatibility by transforming XML with XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language for Transformation). The other two chapters in this part cover creating a portal using XML and XSLT, and using Web services to break down an application into distributed components. This thoughtful and practical book is a good choice for those already familiar with UML and XML, who now need to put these technologies to use in application design. The same example e-Business application is used throughout, making it easy to see how the concepts discussed can be applied in the real world. --Tim AndersonRead More